Determination: Inspiration To Continue

Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal – a commitment to excellence – that will enable you to attain the success you seek. ~ Mario Andretti ~

“The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope”. ~ Barack Obama ~

Obviously, I am not trying to win the approval of people, but of God. If pleasing people were my goal. I would not be Christ’s servant. ~ Galatians 1:10 ~

“Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, to which you were also called and have confessed the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.”  ~ 1 Timothy 6:12 ~

I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go. ~ Langston Hughes ~

“The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between the great and the insignificant, it’s energy – invincible determination – a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory”. ~ Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton ~

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education alone will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan “press on” has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race. ~ John Calvin Coolidge ~